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“I wished to stifle the unhappy passion which burned in my soul; but is love an illness to be cured? All I endeavored to oppose to it merely fanned its flames.”
― Marquis de Sade, Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue

“A perversion must be baptized and patronized (the Marquis De Sade and Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch were on to something).”
― Philippe Lejeune

“Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in violence....”
― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“Is it by chance that the 18th century of France, the century of the "philosophy of enlightenment," did not produce any poets except the Marquis de Sade, who -- despite his participation in the events of this epoch -- expressed the first violent protest against the essential postulates of this period?”
― Benjamin Péret, A Menagerie in Revolt: Selected Writings

“After Sade, violence, life and death, desire, and sexuality will extend, below the level of representation, an immense expanse of darkness, which we are now attempting to recover...in our discourse, in our freedom, in our thought.”
― Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

“If, though full of respect for social conventions and never overstepping the bounds they draw round us, if, nonetheless, it should come to pass that the wicked tread upon flowers, will it not be decided that it is preferable to abandon oneself to the tide rather than to resist it? Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice, and that, in an entirely corrupted age, the safest course is to follow along after the others?”
― Marquis de Sade, Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue

“How many times, by God’s bloody prick, have I longed to be able to detonate planets, to destroy the sun itself, to pluck it from the universe and crash it into the earth, annihilating all Creation and replacing it with a lightless void of violence. Ah, that would be a crime! A cosmic crime, dwarfing the petty misdemeanours we are committing here, limited as we are to snuffing out a few meaningless souls”
― Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom

“Among the mutations that have affected the knowledge of things ... only one, which began a century and a half ago ... has allowed the figure of man to appear.”
― Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

“This is what men have done to me. This is what I have learnt from the dangers of associating with them. Is it surprising that, embittered by misfortune and revolted by outrages and injustices, I should in my heart aspire only to avoid all contact with them in the future?”
― Marquis de Sade, Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue

“How many times, by God’s bloody prick, have I longed to be able to detonate planets, to destroy the sun itself, to puck it from the universe and crash it into the earth, annihilating all Creation and replacing it with a lightless void of violence. Ah, that would be a crime! A cosmic crime, dwarfing the petty misdemeanours we are committing here, limited as we are to snuffing out a few meaningless souls.”
― Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom

“Sade's ultimate achievement was to make sex the choicest expression of obscene cruelty and absolute, despotic power.”
― David Coward, The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales

“If Sade's books are the kind which the French inelegantly describe as needing to be read with one hand, it is a sensible precaution to hold a sick-bowl in the other.”
― David Coward, The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales

“Sade was not the Great Liberator so many have seen in him but the creator of a terrible, horrific, vision which is the death of hope, of history, of civilization itself.”
― David Coward, The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales

“le langage de Sade est paradoxal parce qu’il est essentiellement celui d’une victime. Il n’y a que les victimes qui peuvent décrire les tortures, les bourreaux emploient nécessairement le langage hypocrite de l’ordre et du pouvoir établis”
― Gilles Deleuze, Venus in Furs

“Il n'y a d'autre enfer pour l'homme que la ²úê³Ù¾±²õ±ð ou la ³¾Ã©³¦³ó²¹²Ô³¦±ð³Ùé de ses semblables.”
― Marquis de Sade

“Sade’s success in our day is explained by the dream that he had in common with contemporary thought: the demand for total freedom, and dehumanization coldly planned by the intelligence. The reduction of man to an object of experiment, the rule that specifies the relation between the will to power and man as an object, the sealed laboratory that is the scene of this monstrous experiment, are lessons which the theoreticians of power will discover again when they come to organizing the age of slavery.
Two centuries ahead of time and on a reduced scale, Sade extolled totalitarian societies in the name of unbridled freedom—which, in reality, rebellion does not demand. The history and the tragedy of our times really begin with him. He only believed that a society founded on freedom of crime must coincide with freedom of morals, as though servitude had its limits. Our times have limited themselves to blending, in a curious manner, his dream of a universal republic and his technique of degradation. Finally, what he hated most, legal murder, has availed itself of the discoveries that he wanted to put to the service of instinctive murder. Crime, which he wanted to be the exotic and delicious fruit of unbridled vice, is no more today than the dismal habit of a police-controlled morality. Such are the surprises of literature.”
― Albert Camus, The Rebel

“It was not murder that fulfilled Sade's erotic nature; it was literature.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Marquis de Sade: An essay by Simone de Beauvoir

“Sade's aberrations begin to acquire value when, instead of enduring them as his fixed nature, he elaborates an immense system in order to justify them.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Must We Burn Sade?

“He made of his sexuality an ethic; he expressed this ethic in works of literature. It is by this deliberate act that Sade attains a real originality.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Must We Burn Sade?

“The "evil" which he had made his refuge vanished when crime was justified by virtue.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Must We Burn Sade?

“Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.”
― Camille Paglia

“Dans les Cent Vingt Journées, le libertin se déclare excité non par les « objets qui sont ici », mais par l’Objet qui n’est pas là, c’est-à-dire l’Â� idée du mal ». Or cette idée de ce qui n’est pas, cette idée du Non ou de la négation, qui n’est pas donnée ni donnable dans l’expérience, ne peut être qu’objet de démonstration (au sens où le mathématicien parle de vérités qui gardent tout leur sens même si nous dormons, et même si elles n’existent pas dans la nature). C’est pourquoi aussi les héros sadiques désespèrent et enragent de voir leurs crimes réels si minces par rapport à cette idée qu’ils ne peuvent atteindre que par la toute-puissance du raisonnement. Ils rêvent d’un crime universel et impersonnel”
― Gilles Deleuze, Venus in Furs

“Sade, au moins, n’a pas montré le vice agréable ou riant : il l’a montré apathique. Et sans doute, de cette apathie découle un plaisir intense ; mais à la limite, ce n’est plus le plaisir d’un Moi qui participe à la nature seconde (fût-ce un moi criminel participant à une nature criminelle), c’est au contraire le plaisir de nier la nature en moi et hors de moi, et de nier le Moi lui-même. En un mot, c’est un plaisir de démonstration.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Venus in Furs

“And there was one dream common to most young aristocrats of the time. Scions of a declining class which had once possessed
concrete power, but which no longer retained any real hold on the world, they tried to revive symbolically, in the privacy of the bed-chamber, the status for which they were nostalgic: that of the lone and sovereign feudal despot.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“And there was one dream common to most young aristocrats of the time. Scions of a declining class which had once possessed concrete power, but which no longer retained any real hold on the world, they tried to revive symbolically, in the privacy of the bed chamber, the status for which they were nostalgic: that of the lone and sovereign feudal despot.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Must We Burn Sade?

“Basit ve sade ÅŸeyler kalbine çok kolaylıkla dokunabilirler! EÄŸer basit ve sade olabilirsen, bütün kalplere dokunabilirsin!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Basit güzeldir çünkü sadedir; basit etkilidir çünkü anlaşılabilir net bir mesaj verir; basit dâhidir çünkü minimum bir çabayla hayranlığımızı kazanır!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“To read Sade against the background of our own monstrosity is sometimes the most frightening thing of all. Indeed, this is what makes Sade unreadable for some: not the obscenity or even the sadism, but the sheer hopelessness of his vision of the world and of human nature.”
― John Phillips, SADE

“But if Sade's work is to be summed up in one word, this word would not be 'sexual' or 'comic' or even 'sadistic', it would be 'transgressive'. As it systematically transgresses all sexual, social, religious and moral norms, his writing repeatedly and earnestly insists on the exquisite pleasure to be derived from this transgression.”
― John Phillips, SADE

“Sade and Genet both achieved freedom by squeezing it out of their characters. If Apollinaire was right to describe Sade, who spent more than half his adult life in prison, as 'the most free spirit that ever lived', this is how he achieved freedom.”
― Ronald Hayman, De Sade: A Critical Biography